August 2011
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Rebuilding
I spent my birthday setting up the returned Envy. Some of its contents were backed up by the netbook, like stories and poems. Other items were safe online, like my collection of photos people have taken of me busking on the streets of Atlanta. It will take time to track them all down, but I have most. They still exist. Some stuff is gone, like my background and immense font collection. That...
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Rankings
I surrendered when I saw the article. The Sunday Times is a lumbering giant, thorough, wide-ranging, not nimble. Its sense of the latest thing barely outdoes my mother’s. Klout and Peerindex are future-fragments. They will thrive. I have watched my scores for a month.
My Klout hovers in the thirties, strong. I like to think what I say online is worthwhile. A third of my life is...
Turtles: jesuisrobert: Is it bad if I find a... →
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jesuisrobert:
Is it bad if I find a majority of the Freshmen that Im going to college with annoying? They try so hard to impress everyone and make themselves seem “cool.” Sure college is where you go to make a new start, but don’t try to be someone you’re not.
I made too many friends like…
I like to see people reinventing themselves as long as they do it right. ...
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Cohabiting with autism. →
“Moms living with autism share their stories!” the headline proclaims. I know what it means. I know what it always means. And I know it will provoke some degree of wrath in me, but I click it anyway, because I’m testing my assumption, and because if I don’t keep up my frustration level, I’ll have nothing to blog about.
As usual, “moms living with autism” means “moms of autistic children.”...
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Emails
First, I delete all messages from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, etc. Emails from the neighborhood listserv and Moveon.org are next unless they look interesting. These are skimmed. I glance over stuff from Mom, short and sweet. Next comes office correspondence. Notes from my boss take reading, thought, and sometimes action. I do what is needed and move on. Grandma’s letters are old...
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If a Married Lesbian Couple Saves 40 Teens from... →
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amazing.
Everyone should know about this. Get it out there.
Does it matter that they were a married lesbian couple? Not really. What does matter is that they saved 40 lives. Them being gay and married is just a nice footnote.
Exactly.
Though I can’t help but think if it had been a...
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In English gambling dens in the 18th century,...
If this is true, it is the greatest thing ever.
